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Home Assistant: Using Infrared, Motors, and Relays

In this article, we are going to combine ODROIDs with a little bit of hardware and Home Assistant, so that we can start converting non-smart appliances to "smart" appliances. We'll be working with wires, doing a bit of soldering, connecting relays, and in some cases working with mains voltage, so  ▶

Linux Kernel For ODROID
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Linux Kernel 4.14: ODROID-XU3/4/MC1/HC1 Support

This kernel version becomes particularly attractive for the Exynos 5422 ODROIDs, especially since it includes important fixes for the hardware video decoder and encoder (MFC), the hardware scaler and color space converter (GScaler), and a brand new driver for the HDMI CEC, that exposes the device as a infrared remote control.  ▶